REG-Pensana Plc: Report on Payments to Governments

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21/12/2022 10:15

21 December 2022

Pensana Plc

("Pensana" or the "Company")

Payments to Government for FY 2022

Pensana Plc (LSE: PRE) (“Pensana” or “the Company”) publishes the
Company’s Payments to Governments Report for the year ended 30 June 2022
(“the Year” or “FY2022”) (the “Report”).

Basis of preparation

This Report, which provides an overview of the payments to governments made by
Pensana and its subsidiaries, is required under the United Kingdom’s
(“UK”) Report on Payments to Governments Regulations 2014 and its
amendment in December 2015 (“the Regulations”). This Report is also
intended to satisfy the requirements of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules
of the Financial Conduct Authority in the UK.

This report is also available on the Company’s website at:
www.pensana.co.uk.

Activities

Payments made by Pensana to governments arising from activities involving the
exploration, prospection, discovery, development and extraction of minerals
(extractive activities) across its projects are to be disclosed in this
report.

Summary of Payments (US$)(1)

                                                                                                                 
 Country     Corporate taxes  Mining & other licence fees  Royalties  Infrastructure improvements  Other  Total  
 Australia          -                      -                   -                   -                 -      -    
 Angola (2)         -                    1,514                 -                   -                 -    1,514  
 Tanzania           -                      -                   -                   -                 -      -    
 UK                 -                      -                   -                   -                 -      -    

(1) Payments are shown in US$ equivalent amounts for the financial year ending
30 June 2022 using the average FX rate for the year

(2) Payments shown relate to the Longonjo Project only

Government definition

Government includes any national, regional or local authority of a country,
and includes a department, agency or entity that is a subsidiary of a
government.

Payments

Payments to governments are required to be reported in the following
categories:
* Taxes
These are any taxes paid by Pensana on its income and profits in accordance
with legislation enacted in the applicable jurisdiction. Payments are reported
net of refunds. Value added tax, personal income taxes, social taxes, property
taxes are excluded.
* Royalties
Royalties are not yet applicable as still in exploration/development.
* Fees
These are any fees and other sums paid as consideration for acquiring a
licence for gaining access to an area where extractive activities are
performed. Administrative government fees that are not specifically related to
the extractive sector are excluded.
* Infrastructure improvements
Payments in kind in the form of infrastructure expenditure other than in
circumstances where the infrastructure is expected to be primarily dedicated
to operational activities throughout its useful life. The Regulations do not
require reporting social or community payments, such as payments to build a
hospital or a school.

Other types of payments

Other types of payments that are required to be disclosed in accordance with
the Regulations but are not relevant to Pensana’s operations are the
following:
* Production entitlements
* Dividends
Including dividends paid to a government in lieu of production entitlements or
royalties. Dividends paid to a government as an ordinary shareholder on the
same terms as to other ordinary shareholders and not paid in lieu of
production entitlements or royalties are excluded.
* Signature, discovery and production bonuses
Payments are reported on a cash basis. No in-kind payments were made during
year ended 30 June 2022.

Materiality Level

Payments included in the Report are amounts paid, whether in money or in kind,
for relevant activities. In line with the Regulations, where a payment or a
series of related payments have not exceeded £86,000 they have not been
disclosed.

Payments per government

Total payments to governments under the Regulations amounted to US$1,514 in FY
2022 (FY 2021: US$32,176).

Authorised by the Board of Pensana Plc

- ENDS –

For further information, please contact:

Shareholder/analyst enquiries:

Pensana Plc       

Paul Atherley,
Chairman                                                                
IR@pensana.co.uk

Tim George, Chief Executive Officer

Rob Kaplan, Chief Financial Officer

George Zacharias, Group Company Secretary

Media enquiries:

FGS Global:

Gordon Simpson / Richard
Crowley                                           
Pensana-LON@fgsglobal.com

About Pensana Plc

The electrification of motive power is the most important part of the energy
transition if we are to tackle climate change and one of the biggest energy
transitions in history. Magnet metal rare earths are central to that
transition, forming a critical part of the technology for efficient electric
vehicle motors and offshore wind turbines.

Pensana plans to establish its Saltend processing hub as an independent and
sustainable supplier of the key rare earth magnet metal oxides to a market
which is currently dominated by China.

The US$195 million Saltend facility is being designed to produce circa 12,500
tonnes per annum of rare earth products, of which 4,500 tonnes will be
neodymium and praseodymium oxide (NdPrO), representing over 5% of the world
market in 2025.

Pensana’s plug-and-play facility is located within the world-class Saltend
Chemicals Park, a cluster of leading chemicals and renewable energy businesses
in the Humber Freeport and will create over 500 jobs during construction and
over 125 direct jobs once in production.

Powered by low-carbon offshore wind, it will be the first major separation
facility to be established in over a decade and will become one of the few
major producers located outside China.

Feedstock will be shipped as a clean, high purity mixed rare earth sulphate
(MRES) from the Company’s Longonjo low-impact operations in Angola. The
mine's state-of-the-art concentrator and proprietary MRES processing plant are
designed by Wood to the highest international standards.

The operations will be powered by renewable energy from hydroelectric power
and connected to the Port of Lobito by the recently upgraded Benguela railway
line.

Pensana believes that provenance of critical rare earth materials supply, life
cycle analysis and GHG Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions will all become significant
factors in supply chains for major customers.

The Company intends to offer customers an independently and sustainably
sourced supply of the metal oxides and carbonates of increasing importance to
a range of applications central to addressing the energy transition.

Pensana is also aiming to establish Saltend as an attractive alternative to
mining houses that may otherwise be limited to selling their products to
China, having designed the facility to be easily adapted to cater for a range
of rare earth feedstocks.

www.pensana.co.uk



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